Memento Films Intl. has inked a raft of strong pre-sales on Philippe Falardeau’s “My Salinger Year,” the big-screen adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s international bestseller that will star Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”).
Set to start shooting May 23, “My Salinger Year” has pre-sold to Spain (A Contracorriente), Latin America (Cinepolis), the U.K. (Thunderbird), Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Japan (Ccc), Portugal (Outsider), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos), Bulgaria (Btv Media Group), the former Yugoslavia (Dexin), Hungary (Hungaricom), China (Huanxi Media), South Korea (Jin Jin Pictures), Taiwan (Catchplay), the Middle East (Falcon Film) and global airlines (Entertainment in Motion).
Falardeau, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated film “Monsieur Lazhar,” wrote the big-screen adaptation of the memoir and will direct the film. “My Salinger Year” takes place in New York in the 1990s and follows Joanna (Qualley), who leaves graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming...
Set to start shooting May 23, “My Salinger Year” has pre-sold to Spain (A Contracorriente), Latin America (Cinepolis), the U.K. (Thunderbird), Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Japan (Ccc), Portugal (Outsider), Greece and Cyprus (Spentzos), Bulgaria (Btv Media Group), the former Yugoslavia (Dexin), Hungary (Hungaricom), China (Huanxi Media), South Korea (Jin Jin Pictures), Taiwan (Catchplay), the Middle East (Falcon Film) and global airlines (Entertainment in Motion).
Falardeau, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated film “Monsieur Lazhar,” wrote the big-screen adaptation of the memoir and will direct the film. “My Salinger Year” takes place in New York in the 1990s and follows Joanna (Qualley), who leaves graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming...
- 5/16/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Kayti Burt Feb 1, 2017
Saoirse Ronan has been cast in another immigration-themed romance based on a bestselling novel.
Saoirse Ronan is taking on another immigration-themed drama for her next project. According to Deadline, the Irish actress will be starring in Sweetness In The Belly, a film adaptation of the bestselling novel from Camilla Gibb. If Sweetness In The Belly is half as mesmerising as Brooklyn, then this film will be one to anticipate. (Not to mention, immigration is kind of a timely subject right now... you know, even more than it always is.)
Ronan will play Lily Abdal, a woman who was orphaned in Africa as a child only to return to her English homeland as an adult refugee, fleeing from a civil war. Once there, she is caught between the homeland of her birth parents and the home she grew up in. Lily quickly becomes the heart of a London community of disenfranchised immigrants,...
Saoirse Ronan has been cast in another immigration-themed romance based on a bestselling novel.
Saoirse Ronan is taking on another immigration-themed drama for her next project. According to Deadline, the Irish actress will be starring in Sweetness In The Belly, a film adaptation of the bestselling novel from Camilla Gibb. If Sweetness In The Belly is half as mesmerising as Brooklyn, then this film will be one to anticipate. (Not to mention, immigration is kind of a timely subject right now... you know, even more than it always is.)
Ronan will play Lily Abdal, a woman who was orphaned in Africa as a child only to return to her English homeland as an adult refugee, fleeing from a civil war. Once there, she is caught between the homeland of her birth parents and the home she grew up in. Lily quickly becomes the heart of a London community of disenfranchised immigrants,...
- 1/31/2017
- Den of Geek
HanWay to sell film based on the novel by Camilla Gibb.
Brooklyn and The Grand Budapest Hotel star Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in Sweetness In The Belly, adapted from the novel of the same name by Camilla Gibb.
Zeresenay “Zee” Berhane Mehari, whose first feature Difret won the audience award at Sundance in 2014, directs with Laura Phillips writing the screenplay.
Two-time Oscar nominee Ronan stars as a woman who is orphaned at a young age in Africa. Forced to flee her adopted home years later due to civil war, she becomes a refugee in England and works to reunite disenfranchised people with their scattered families. Her motive isn’t just altruistic though, with a passionate lost love affair revealed between Lilly and Aziz, an idealistic doctor.
HanWay Films will handle worldwide sales and will take the package to the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Sienna Films optioned the novel and developed the screenplay and were...
Brooklyn and The Grand Budapest Hotel star Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in Sweetness In The Belly, adapted from the novel of the same name by Camilla Gibb.
Zeresenay “Zee” Berhane Mehari, whose first feature Difret won the audience award at Sundance in 2014, directs with Laura Phillips writing the screenplay.
Two-time Oscar nominee Ronan stars as a woman who is orphaned at a young age in Africa. Forced to flee her adopted home years later due to civil war, she becomes a refugee in England and works to reunite disenfranchised people with their scattered families. Her motive isn’t just altruistic though, with a passionate lost love affair revealed between Lilly and Aziz, an idealistic doctor.
HanWay Films will handle worldwide sales and will take the package to the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Sienna Films optioned the novel and developed the screenplay and were...
- 1/31/2017
- ScreenDaily
Saoirse Ronan is set to star in the immigrant romance Sweetness in the Belly.
Zeresenay "Zee" Berhane Mehari will direct the adaptation of Camilla Gibb's best-seller, from a screenplay by Laura Phillips. Brooklyn producers Alan Moloney and Susan Mullen of Parallel Films are producing with Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny of Sienna Films, who optioned the novel and developed the screenplay. Mehret Mandefro and Adrian Sturges are executive producers. HanWay Films will shop the title to buyers at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
The two-time Oscar nominee will play Lilly, who was orphaned in Africa as a child and experiences her parents’ homeland of England for the first...
Zeresenay "Zee" Berhane Mehari will direct the adaptation of Camilla Gibb's best-seller, from a screenplay by Laura Phillips. Brooklyn producers Alan Moloney and Susan Mullen of Parallel Films are producing with Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny of Sienna Films, who optioned the novel and developed the screenplay. Mehret Mandefro and Adrian Sturges are executive producers. HanWay Films will shop the title to buyers at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.
The two-time Oscar nominee will play Lilly, who was orphaned in Africa as a child and experiences her parents’ homeland of England for the first...
- 1/31/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-nominated Toni Collette and Matthew Goode have boarded the indie comedy Birthmarked, now shooting in Montreal.
They play respected scientists who conduct an experiment on three children they hope will revolutionize the understanding of human identity only to discover the true meaning of family. Birthmarked was directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and has an ensemble cast that includes Andreas Apergis, Michael Smiley, Fionnula Flanagan and Suzanne Clement.
The indie reunites co-producers Pierre Even of Item 7 and Susan Mullen of Parallel Film Productions, both of whom collaborated on the Oscar-nominated drama Brooklyn, which also shot in Montreal. The film is based on...
They play respected scientists who conduct an experiment on three children they hope will revolutionize the understanding of human identity only to discover the true meaning of family. Birthmarked was directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and has an ensemble cast that includes Andreas Apergis, Michael Smiley, Fionnula Flanagan and Suzanne Clement.
The indie reunites co-producers Pierre Even of Item 7 and Susan Mullen of Parallel Film Productions, both of whom collaborated on the Oscar-nominated drama Brooklyn, which also shot in Montreal. The film is based on...
- 12/8/2016
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in the Us as well as the UK and Latin America to Aisling Walsh’s recent Telluride world premiere starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.
The distributor has also acquired territories in Asia and Eastern Europe as well as Scandinavia, Italy, South Africa, Portugal, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
Spc negotiated the deal with CAA and Mongrel International. Maudie received its Canadian premiere in Toronto.
Sherry White wrote the screenplay about the love story between acclaimed Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and the taciturn Everett Lewis
Bob Cooper produced alongside Mary Young Leckie, Susan Mullen and Mary Sexton, while executive producers are Heather Haldane, Hussain Amarshi, Alan Moloney, Johanna Hogan, Mark Roberts, Sheldon Rabinowitz, Ross Jacobson, Tyler Mitchell and Ed Riche.
Maudie was made with financial participation by Telefilm Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador Development Corporation, Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund, the Ontario Media Development Corporation & Bord Scannán na hÉireann...
The distributor has also acquired territories in Asia and Eastern Europe as well as Scandinavia, Italy, South Africa, Portugal, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
Spc negotiated the deal with CAA and Mongrel International. Maudie received its Canadian premiere in Toronto.
Sherry White wrote the screenplay about the love story between acclaimed Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and the taciturn Everett Lewis
Bob Cooper produced alongside Mary Young Leckie, Susan Mullen and Mary Sexton, while executive producers are Heather Haldane, Hussain Amarshi, Alan Moloney, Johanna Hogan, Mark Roberts, Sheldon Rabinowitz, Ross Jacobson, Tyler Mitchell and Ed Riche.
Maudie was made with financial participation by Telefilm Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador Development Corporation, Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund, the Ontario Media Development Corporation & Bord Scannán na hÉireann...
- 9/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S. rights and multiple foreign territories to “Maudie,” Aisling Walsh’s biopic of folk artist Maud Lewis. The film stars Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke and is based on the true story of the romance between Everett Lewis (Hawke) and his housekeeper, Maud (Hawkins), who later became a famous artist. The film is written by Sherry White. “Maudie” is produced by Bob Cooper, Mary Young Leckie, Susan Mullen and Mary Sexton and executive produced by Heather Haldane, Hussain Amarshi, Alan Moloney, Johanna Hogan, Mark Roberts, Sheldon Rabinowitz, Ross Jacobson, Tyler Mitchell and Ed Riche.
- 9/30/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Straight Outta Compton co-writer Jonathan Herman has written the screenplay, Giulio Ricciarielli will direct.
Bob Cooper, one of the producers on Maudie through his company Landscape, has disclosed details of a new project through Storyscape Entertainment, the La-based company he launched with Richard Saperstein in late 2015.
The partners have signed Giulio Ricciarielli, the director of Germany’s Oscar submission Labyrinth Of Lies, to direct crime thriller Rites Of Men from a screenplay by Straight Outta Compton co-writer and Scarface remake writer Jonathan Herman.
Cooper and Saperstein and Anthony Jabre will produce the project about a man who will stop at nothing to find his 16-year-old son’s killers and in the process finds the strength to forgive and becomes a better father.
Storyscape also has Entering Hades with Michael Fassbender set up through its first-look deal at Broad Green Pictures, while the pipeline at other studios includes The War Magician to star Benedict Cumberbatch.
Meanwhile, Japanese...
Bob Cooper, one of the producers on Maudie through his company Landscape, has disclosed details of a new project through Storyscape Entertainment, the La-based company he launched with Richard Saperstein in late 2015.
The partners have signed Giulio Ricciarielli, the director of Germany’s Oscar submission Labyrinth Of Lies, to direct crime thriller Rites Of Men from a screenplay by Straight Outta Compton co-writer and Scarface remake writer Jonathan Herman.
Cooper and Saperstein and Anthony Jabre will produce the project about a man who will stop at nothing to find his 16-year-old son’s killers and in the process finds the strength to forgive and becomes a better father.
Storyscape also has Entering Hades with Michael Fassbender set up through its first-look deal at Broad Green Pictures, while the pipeline at other studios includes The War Magician to star Benedict Cumberbatch.
Meanwhile, Japanese...
- 9/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s contributing editor Wendy Mitchell talked to the film’s producer Finola Dwyer at The UK Film Centre in Cannes.
Jon Crowley’s upcoming film Brooklyn took Sundance by storm, resulting in a record-breaking bidding war.
“When I read Colm Tóibín’s novel (of the same name), I loved it. I think it’s a universal issue where people live somewhere other than where they were born. But I thought it would be expensive, being based in Ireland and the Us.”
After a fate meeting with Tóibín in New York, the writer agreed to give Dwyer the option rights for the book.
“I immediately got in touch with Nick Hornby, whom I worked with on An Education. We both shared the same vision, and the script came together very quickly.”
Casting was more complicated – with Rooney Mara initially set to play the lead. As the development stage lingered on, she became...
Jon Crowley’s upcoming film Brooklyn took Sundance by storm, resulting in a record-breaking bidding war.
“When I read Colm Tóibín’s novel (of the same name), I loved it. I think it’s a universal issue where people live somewhere other than where they were born. But I thought it would be expensive, being based in Ireland and the Us.”
After a fate meeting with Tóibín in New York, the writer agreed to give Dwyer the option rights for the book.
“I immediately got in touch with Nick Hornby, whom I worked with on An Education. We both shared the same vision, and the script came together very quickly.”
Casting was more complicated – with Rooney Mara initially set to play the lead. As the development stage lingered on, she became...
- 5/19/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Mongrel International has spiced up its Efm slate and joined a select handful of sales agents to secure the services of red-hot Ethan Hawke.
The Oscar-nominated star of Boyhood will act opposite Sally Hawkins in Maudie, the true-life romance that is scheduled to shoot this summer in Newfoundland, Canada.
Hawke will play a reclusive fish peddler who falls for his arthritic housekeeper, the eponymous Maud who displays little talent for her job but huge ability as a painter and goes on to become a celebrated folk artist.
Aisling Walsh will direct from Canadian Sherry White’s screenplay inspired by the real romance that played out in Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 60s.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape Films produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto’s Solo Productions and Susan Mullen of Parallel Films, the Dublin producers behind Albert Nobbs.
“Ethan Hawke is one of the finest actors and artists working today,” said Walsh. “His...
The Oscar-nominated star of Boyhood will act opposite Sally Hawkins in Maudie, the true-life romance that is scheduled to shoot this summer in Newfoundland, Canada.
Hawke will play a reclusive fish peddler who falls for his arthritic housekeeper, the eponymous Maud who displays little talent for her job but huge ability as a painter and goes on to become a celebrated folk artist.
Aisling Walsh will direct from Canadian Sherry White’s screenplay inspired by the real romance that played out in Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 60s.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape Films produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto’s Solo Productions and Susan Mullen of Parallel Films, the Dublin producers behind Albert Nobbs.
“Ethan Hawke is one of the finest actors and artists working today,” said Walsh. “His...
- 2/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former evp of eOne Films International arrives in Cannes as new president of Mongrel International.
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
- 5/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former evp of eOne Films International arrives in Cannes as new president of Mongrel International.
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
- 5/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former evp of eOne Films International arrives in Cannes as new president of Mongrel International.
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
Beloved sales veteran Charlotte Mickie arrives in Cannes as the new president of freshly minted Mongrel International and will commence talks on Maudie starring Sally Hawkins.
Mickie joined Mongrel Media founder Hussain Amarshi’s new venture on the eve of Cannes after recently departing eOne Films International.
Mongrel International holds worldwide rights to the Canada-Ireland co-production excluding Canada, where Mongrel Media will distribute directly.
Aisling Walsh’s drama is lined up to shoot in Newfoundland, Canada, in July. The true story based on a screenplay by Sherry White recounts the romance between recluse Everett Lewis and Maud Lewis, who went on to become a celebrated folk painter.
Bob Cooper of Los Angeles-based Landscape produces with Mary Young Leckie of Toronto-based Solo Productions and Susan Mullen from Dublin’s Parallel. Heather Haldane, Mary Sexton, Tyler Mitchell, Alan Moloney and [link...
- 5/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Hussain Amarshi is moving into the international sales business and heads to Cannes with an expanded Canadian company and his first sales title.
Mongrel International will focus on pedigree Canadian and world cinema titles and the first on the roster is Canada-Ireland co-production Maudie to star Sally Hawkins.
“We have specialised in bringing carefully curated, culturally relevant, story-driven and beautifully crafted films to Canadian audiences,” said Mongrel president and founder Hussain Amarshi, who will announce hires shortly. “And with Mongrel International, we plan to do that same for the world market.”
Aisling Walsh is scheduled to start shooting Maudie in July in Newfoundland, Canada, where the producers believe they will capture the look of Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 1960s era of the film.
Mongrel holds Canadian rights to the true story of a romance between a curmudgeonly recluse and the fragile yet determined eponymous character, whose crippled hands do not stop her from creating her beloved...
Mongrel International will focus on pedigree Canadian and world cinema titles and the first on the roster is Canada-Ireland co-production Maudie to star Sally Hawkins.
“We have specialised in bringing carefully curated, culturally relevant, story-driven and beautifully crafted films to Canadian audiences,” said Mongrel president and founder Hussain Amarshi, who will announce hires shortly. “And with Mongrel International, we plan to do that same for the world market.”
Aisling Walsh is scheduled to start shooting Maudie in July in Newfoundland, Canada, where the producers believe they will capture the look of Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 1960s era of the film.
Mongrel holds Canadian rights to the true story of a romance between a curmudgeonly recluse and the fragile yet determined eponymous character, whose crippled hands do not stop her from creating her beloved...
- 4/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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